Hey, what's up, guys.
Ryan here from ExtremeTerrain.
And today I'm here with the Omix-ADA hard top seal kit fitting your 2011 to 2018 Jeep
Wrangler JK.
Now, if you've noticed some wear and tear within your hard top, or if you're just dealing
with a leak, then this hard top seal kit may just be the perfect fix.
This kit's gonna come with all 17 pieces that you need to replace in order to keep your
hard top sealed down on your Wrangler.
That seal kit is made from high quality foam with a 3M backing, and it's the perfect main
end solution to keep that inclement weather out and your interior dry.
Currently this kit is coming in right around $18 and is your only option for a full seal
kit.
That is a very affordable and reasonable option as far as these main end solutions go, making
it very worthwhile in the long run.
Now, as far as installation goes, I am gonna give this a one out of three wrenches on the
difficulty meter as you can get this installed in about an hour.
And with that being said, let's hop into the install.
Now, to install these seals is relatively simple, however, we do need to take the hard
top off, that way we can access all those areas and swap those seals out.
Now you're gonna have the actual hard top that we need to remove and we're gonna have
our freedom panels up here, so, we're gonna start with our freedom panel, so let's get
inside and get started.
So, to get these freedom panels out, we're gonna go to the back of the freedom panels
at our soundbar, they're gonna have these little cup bolts.
What we need to do is unscrew these.
So we're gonna start with those, and all you do is just get underneath of these, twist
them out.
If you've already taken your freedom panels off, you may not even have these things installed.
So we need to get both of these out because you have one per panel.
After that we need to undo the latches for our freedom panels.
You're just gonna slide these aside,
then we'll go up front here and get this last latch
off.
After that, we can lift up, remove it from the vehicle.
Same thing to get that other freedom panel off.
I'll undo this latch back here, and we have one up here.
After that, we're gonna lift this thing up and off.
So now we have our freedom panels off on the table upside down, you can see where all these
seals are located.
On each freedom panel you're gonna have seals in all four corners, and the nice thing about
this kit is it's gonna give you all of those seals to replace.
Now, with this kit you're gonna get a ton of different shaped seals, so it's a good
idea to lay them all out, figure out where they're gonna go.
We are gonna do one seal at a time, we'll pull the seal off, clean the area, stick a
brand new seal in there, that way we know exactly where that seal landed and we can
put it in that same exact spot.
So we're gonna go around and do one at a time.
Okay.
So, to get these seals off, you're gonna use a scraping tool.
However, it seems like you can pretty much roll them off with your fingertip, so that's
what we're gonna do.
We're just gonna roll these seals off and then we'll clean this surface and stick the
new ones on.
Now we want to clean this surface, so it would be a good idea to get some alcohol wipes or
some isopropyl alcohol, and what we're gonna do is just make sure that this is oil free,
contaminant free, and that our new adhesive back on these foam pieces are gonna stick.
So we peel our backing off.
We made sure that this matched up, it was the same exact size, so, what we're gonna
do is just place this in that same exact position.
We're gonna line it up with the edges just like that,
lay that down on there,
after we
get that on we can move on to the next one.
So we're just gonna work our way around as you can see, we got that same sized piece
right there.
So we'll go ahead and just do that same thing, roll this thing off with our fingertips.
Now, these ones on this edge, you can see it has a odd shape to it.
So we've picked out that correct size right there.
We'll go ahead and do that same thing.
Just peel this off.
And then we want to match this whole area up, so we're gonna start down here.
So, in the corner, you can see we have two that are gonna overlap right here, so we're
gonna pick out this one for this edge, and we also have this other slim one, has a pretty
thick foam base, these are gonna overlap each other, so we're gonna peel both of these off,
we'll do this seal right here first and then we'll lay this other one over top.
So, after you get one of them done, you can move on to the next freedom panel.
We're gonna do that same thing starting with that little complicated corner.
Now, on this corner one here you're gonna have this little rubber gasket, and all this
is just lay it over and it's actually glued to this rubber gasket, so, we're not trying
to pull this gasket off there, we want that to stay there, but we want to get the rest
of this glue and everything off of here so we can swap this one out.
While cleaning the glue off of this rubber section, you might have to use something a
little stronger, an adhesive remover, we're actually using Goof Off,
and that's doing
a pretty good job at breaking up this glue because we want this surface to be completely
clean when we put that new section on.
So, there's one last thing that I'd like to mention.
Now, with this kit, you're gonna get a few extra seals, we couldn't find a placement
for them.
And while our 2015 did not utilize the use of these particular seals, depending on your
year model, you may have to use them.
However, like I said, we got all of our seals installed in our freedom panels, so we're
gonna set these seals aside and get these installed.
So, to put these back on, we're gonna start with the passenger side ones since that has
the seal for the center section, and we're gonna basically do the reverse procedure of
getting them off.
So, we'll line this up, make sure that all of it lines up, then we can lock these down,
then we'll get the other one installed.
All right.
Once you reinstall those cups, you're good to go.
So that's gonna wrap it up for my review and install.
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